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picture tubes

picture tubes is the plural of picture tube.

Meaning of picture tube

Noun

picture tube (plural picture tubes)

  1. (historical) The cathode ray tube which produced moving images on the screen of a television set, prior to the development of LEDs.
    • The conventional TV picture tube, whose monstrous bubble of vacuum is responsible for most of the bulk of the TV cabinet, may be on its way out. Electronics men have long dreamed of shrinking the tube to a flat plate not much bigger than the picture.1955 May 7, “Science: Slimmer TV”, in Time, retrieved 12 Nov 2015

Questions about picture tubes

What is picture tubes the plural of?
Picture tubes is the plural of picture tube.

Words near picture tubes in the dictionary

  1. picture show
  2. picture shows
  3. picture sort
  4. picture sorts
  5. picture tube
  6. picture tubes
  7. picture white
  8. picture whites
  9. picture window
  10. picture windows
  11. picture-in-picture

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